{"id":348,"date":"2011-03-26T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=348"},"modified":"2011-03-26T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:34:39","slug":"groups-in-ad-domain-local-global-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2011\/03\/groups-in-ad-domain-local-global-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups in AD | Domain Local, Global, Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Domain Local:<\/strong> groups can contain users, global groups and universal groups from anywhere in the AD forest, but can only be used to secure resources within the same domain.<\/p>\n

Global: <\/strong>groups can contain only users and groups from within the same domain, but can be used to secure resources anywhere in the forest.<\/p>\n

Universal:<\/strong> groups can contain objects from anywhere in the forest, and can be used to secure resources anywhere in the forest.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Group Scope<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nCan Contain<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nUsage<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Domain Local<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • User account from any domain in the forest<\/li>\n
  • Global or universal from any domain in the forest<\/li>\n
  • User accounts, global or universal groups from a trusted forest domain<\/li>\n
  • Other domain local groups from the same domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
\n
    \n
  • Resources in local domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Global<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • User accounts in the same domain<\/li>\n
  • Other global groups from the same domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
\n
    \n
  • Any domain in the forest or trusted forests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Universal<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • Users. Global groups or universal groups from any domain in the forest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
\n
    \n
  • Any domain in the forest or trusted forests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    You can only convert from the following and this will only take place if the correct “member of” groups are related:<\/p>\n

      \n
    • Domain Local to\u00a0Universal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
        \n
      • Global to\u00a0Universal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
          \n
        • Universal to\u00a0Domain Local &\u00a0Global<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Domain Local: groups can contain users, global groups and universal groups from anywhere in the AD forest, but can only be used to secure resources within the same domain. Global: groups can contain only users and groups from within the same domain, but can be used to secure resources anywhere in the forest. Universal: groups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guide","category-microsoft","category-windows-server-2003","category-windows-server-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-5C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}